pre-memorial day celebration with the woods

hayden had no school on thursday, friday AND monday due to memorial day, or whatever reason the school decided not to have school only a week before it gets out anyway. so we ended up booking a pretty busy weekend.
on saturday morning, jessica and i went cake testing. nothing like having cake for breakfast!
when i got home, dave headed out to adrian for a co-workers hog roast party. shortly after dave left i dropped hayden off at his friend sebastian's house for his birthday party. that was a pretty big deal for me. just dropping him off and leaving him for a party. sebastian's mom told me he listened really well to her and really only had 1 meltdown, which sebastian did too. apparently, they were the youngest so she made sure to take them aside and do special activities with them. they also jumped on a trampoline which i knew from past experienceshayden would LOVE, and he did. while hayden was at the party, talan and i ran a bunch of errands before heading back to pick hayden up. at trader joe's, talan discovered that he LOVES rasberries. he also liked the mango lemonade they have, and ever since, if i have a glass i'm drinking out of he opens his mouth and starts breathing like darth vader until i give him some. after picking hayden up we came home, ate dinner and then did yard work until bed time. we were all beat by the end of the day.
sunday was a fun day of cleaning the inside of the house and then we had andrew, heather, ellanore, henry and cordelia wood come over for an evening of chicken tacos, kids playing outside and catan, of course.
the weather was perfect so the kids had a great time playing outside before we made them come in and go to bed.
it's always great getting together with the woods and we hope to be able to do it often this summer!


ellanore, hayden and henry. they did end up eating everything they were supposed to if only to get a popsicle and get down to play:
hayden and henry after hayden was having a fit because henry wouldn't stay on "his side":
walking like a zombie:

mmmm. milk:
talan thought it was funny to pull the henry's blanket but henry didn't think it was funny at all:

ella and hayden dancing and watching veggie tales:
henry and cordelia. when andrew was getting henry ready for bed he put on his robin pj's and then said, "i think you should show these to dave and jill" and apparently he said "no, i think just to lady skiver.":